Bill Bryson

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.)

I am delighted that you could make it

Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson

the Big Bang represents some sort of transition phase,

where the universe went from a form we can’t understand to one we almost can.

Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang.

It is a little ironic that two of the lightest things in nature, oxygen and hydrogen, when combined form one of the heaviest, but that’s nature for you.

the only thing special about the elements that make you is that they make you. That is the miracle of life.

Your lungs, smoothed out, would cover a tennis court, and the airways within them would stretch nearly from coast to coast.

The length of all your blood vessels would take you two and a half times around Earth.